'Callous' undertaker stole £15,000 from grieving relatives – when she was arrested police found an 'inhumane' chapel of rest where a body was 'clearly decomposing'
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukA 'callous and deceitful' undertaker stole more than £15,000 from grieving friends and relatives, a court heard. Sharon Howell, manager at Kenworthy's Funeral Service in Ashton-under-Lyne, defrauded six victims while being employed to arrange their loved ones' funerals.
After Howell was arrested a police and trading standards inspection of the firm's chapel of rest found it was in an 'unsafe and inhumane' condition and discovered a body that was 'clearly decomposing'.
Howell, 50, would regularly fail to collect bodies from hospital mortuaries in a 'timely' manner, the court heard. READ MORE: The thug who shotgunned a love rival in the back of an NHS Mercedes - and the mum who tried to help him get away with it One victim described how
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